DESPITE already booking their place in next year’s Pan American Games in Mexico, Cuba saved their best for last when they crushed Jamaica 5-0 in the third and final of the three-match series at Mona yesterday.

The Lady Hummingbirds produced another flat performance on the wet astroturf, leading technical director Dr Michelle Holt to conclude that the ladies do not play well when it rains.

Jamaica fell short in just about every department, as the visiting Cubans made themselves at home.

Cuba won the first match on Thursday 3-0 and the second match Saturday 2-1, before sealing their dominance yesterday.

Cuba’s diminutive number 10, Marisbel Sierra Rosello, got the Spanish-speaking neighbours off to a flier when she hit home in the third and 29 minutes to enter the half time 2-0 up.

The Hummingbirds fought back, but the Cubans were determined to plug all holes to the woodwork.

Cuba scored their last three second-half goals in the space of four minutes.

Yaniuska Paso Flor added the third goal on 61 minutes from a penalty corner, and before the Hummingbirds could counter, Kenia Alvarez Guerra shot in the fourth a minute later.

Yuraima Vera Rojas sealed the issue for the Cubans in the 65th minute, who will head home to play in the Alba Games as preparation for the Pan American Games.

Jamaican keeper Lorie-Ann McIntosh saved a penalty stroke in the dying minutes of the match to leave the result unchanged.